Nominal

Nominal may refer to:

Linguistics and grammar

• Nominal (linguistics), one of the parts of speech
• Nominal, the adjectival form of "noun", as in "nominal agreement" (= "noun agreement")
• Nominal sentence, a sentence without a finite verb
• Noun phrase or nominal phrase
• Nominal group, a grammatical unit in functional grammar

Mathematics

• Nominal, in statistics and engineering describes a measurement (or group of measurements) that matches the predicted value(s) within the expected margin of error
• Nominal data, a form of categorical data in statistics
• Nominal number, a number used as an identifier in mathematics

Aerospace

• Nominal, in aerospace usage, describes a process that completes successfully according to plan or design: e.g. "a nominal flight check", "nominal stage separation", or "nominal orbit insertion".

Titles

• Post-nominal letters, letters indicating a title, placed after the name of a person
• Pre-nominal letters, letters indicating a title, placed before the name of a person

Other uses

• Nominal aphasia or anomic aphasia, a problem remembering words and names
• Nominal category, a group of objects or ideas that can be collectively grouped on the basis of one or more shared, arbitrary characteristics
• Nominal damages, a small award to compensate for technical harm
• Nominal GDP, a raw gross domestic product value uncompensated for inflation or deflation
• Nominal techniques, computer science techniques for working with formal languages with name binding constructs
• Real versus nominal value, an accepted condition which is a goal or an approximation as opposed to the real value
  • Real versus nominal value (economics), the face value of currency not corrected for inflation or compound interest

See also

• Nominal group (disambiguation)
• Titular (disambiguation)